KNOWN BUGS:
Will NOT playback shows on clients using BTV Link + Beyond Media.
Will NOT WORK if you are using a different PORT
Will NOT WORK if you are using a password (this will be fixed by me)NEW: BeyondTV MUST BE loaded before BeyondMedia. (this will be fixed by me)
(MM/DD) is displayed instead of Month/Day I just need to parse dates.
Will not playback shows currently recording (I may try to fix this)
Open source, have fun, good luck.

PLEASE NOTE: I AM ACTIVELY DEVELOPING OTHER PLUGINS NOW, IF YOUR INTERESTED IN MODIFYING THIS MODULE, I WILL BE GLAD TO HELP YOU GET STARTED. IT IS JUST AN EXAMPLE TO DEMOSTRATE WHAT IS POSSIBLE WITH BOTH THE BTV API AND BEYONDMEDIA SDK! HOWEVER, FEEDBACK IS ALWAYS WELCOME!

Great plugin, only drawback is Btv has to be completely loaded before you start BM in order for this plugin to load. That makes it impossible to have BM automatically load when windows starts. If you could have it load and refresh, then we can setup BM and BTV both to load on windows start.

If there was a program guide companion as well, BM could effectively become the viewing front end of BTV.

Great plugin, only drawback is Btv has to be completely loaded before you start BM in order for this plugin to load. That makes it impossible to have BM automatically load when windows starts.

GOOD BUG! I did not notice this! I can throw in some "try/catch" statements after finals (next week) that fixes this, should be pretty easy.

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Originally Posted by Edgarmoon

If there was a program guide companion as well, BM could effectively become the viewing front end of BTV.

Well, actually... . Nevermind, I ain't saying anything on that yet. However, I do have the basics done for a "guide search" module. I will likely post a finished one over the holiday break. That should help a bit.

-Brett

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Now you're just teasing me! For now I've loaded the internet shortcut to the animated gif in the shorcut directory, it works but it's not as elegant as it could be.

Getting back to the recorded show plugin, two other quirks.

Sometimes, when Btv is in fullscreen mode (or exclusive fullscreen mode) and I launch BM, clicking the recorded show shortcut locks BM. If I force close it, exit the BTV viewscape and reopen, then it works again.

Another thing I noticed is that I cannot watch a show that is in the process of being recorded.

Oh, and while I got your ear, half the time the (is it Hud?) video play timebar does not show up while watching videos. But if I toggle windowed then fullscreen while the video is playing, it comes back. If I do it again, gone again.

Sometimes, when Btv is in fullscreen mode (or exclusive fullscreen mode) and I launch BM, clicking the recorded show shortcut locks BM. If I force close it, exit the BTV viewscape and reopen, then it works again.

Hmm... never seen that one, does it crash in the log?

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Originally Posted by Edgarmoon

Another thing I noticed is that I cannot watch a show that is in the process of being recorded.

Wow! Your observant. I knew about this one, but had forgotten. Yeah, I seem to recall it being an issue with my trying to modify the 'watch' tag on show in progress. I can look into fixing this over holiday break (maybe even adding a recording icon?).

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Originally Posted by Edgarmoon

Oh, and while I got your ear, half the time the (is it Hud?) video play timebar does not show up while watching videos. But if I toggle windowed then fullscreen while the video is playing, it comes back. If I do it again, gone again.

The HUD was a VERY LAST minute change, and not mine. I had to beg and plead and AFTER RC3, days before going gold, I got it. Basically its just launches the Beyond Video module with a file. So any bug while its playing back would actually be an issue with SnapStreams module. I was gonna eventually expand it to show episode details, but...

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Originally Posted by edgarmoon

Now you're just teasing me! For now I've loaded the internet shortcut to the animated gif in the shorcut directory, it works but it's not as elegant as it could be.

You think I am teasing yah? Ha, try my position. Its much more of a tease. They tell me stuff, cool stuff, then I have to keep quiet about it.

-Brett

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But while we're at it, here is a clean log from this morning. I get three errors, one for callerid, one for firefly, and one for an unrecognized xml in menu. and then it recognizes Btv twice. start up time is really slow and I get delays when jumping forward in video player that I didn't have before. I'll try a defrag.

The other errors are not related to my plugin, although from what I can tell do not cause "actual" problems. I get the FireFly issue on my test PC which doesn't have a FireFly remote. I get the caller ID issue on my test PC which also doesn't have a modem.

-Brett

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I was able to fix my slow startup by removing menu.xml changes and using the shortcuts folder. That and a defrag now has BM opening in 10 seconds. Now if I could just sort out the music database, give me a few days.

I think that they need to be separate. The DVD plugin is where you look for all movies. This plugin can just display TV/disposable shows (since it uses the BTV folder structure). Maybe I'm just a neat freak.